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Old 08-20-2017, 12:32 AM
 
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Old 08-20-2017, 10:18 PM
 
Location: Greater Orlampa CSA
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It almost certainly is, unless one has a particular obsession with P5 College Athletics, NHL or MLS. The numbers of teams don't lie. During the summer in Columbus, you have the Crew, but unless one really, really loves soccer, that one is hard to equate with the Tribe, because while the MLB is the best league of it's kind, the MLS ranks probably 7th or 8th in quality of competition. Cincinnati has Xavier and UC, true, but Cleveland is the only city that has one of the Big 4 playing year round. It's worth pointing out too that Cleveland still does have college sports influence with Kent State, Akron and Cleveland State. Also, Cleveland likely has the best location in terms of traveling to other markets for games, as it's closest to the Northeastern markets.
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Old 08-21-2017, 08:37 AM
 
Location: Pickerington, Ohio
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Take this at face value. Of course Cleveland is Ohio's "best" sports city, by default, purely because of the number of teams.
Considering Columbus, and OSU in particular, are becoming Cleveland South because so many northeast Ohioans come here for school and work and end up never moving back ... take this article for what it's worth.
Can't understand why it wasn't mentioned that in Game 7 of the World Series, with the Indians on the verge of their first championship in 69 years, those great fans let 20,000 Cubs fans in to virtually take over the park. What "great" sports town lets that happen? That's something you see in Atlanta and should never see in Cleveland.
And sorry, continuing to blindly support the Browns despite what a trainwreck they are ... it's either stupid or crazy. Until fans start sending a message that things have to change, they won't.
Bottom line of living most of 40 years in Ohio around many Cleveland fans: No city's fans pound their chests over their teams having done less, and it's not even close.
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Old 08-21-2017, 10:06 AM
 
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Interesting article... btw, not to nitpick, but the article erred: the walk-off single in the Indians-Marlins 1997 World Series (Indians) collapse was not by Craig Counsel (then a rookie) but by Edgar Renteria off Charles Nagy in the 11th (Counsel scored). Counsel hit the 9th inning game-tying sacrifice off Jose Mesa.

Overall though, I agree with the article: Cleveland is Ohio's best all-around best sports town. We live and die with all 3 major sports. The Monsters and the Gladiators? Meh... The 1-million person Cavs' title parade last summer evidenced the pent-up joy of a mid-market city's decades long frustration. Cleveland fans live and die with their teams like no other fanbase I've seen.

Columbus is a great college sports town with OSU. They are getting there with the Blue Jackets, but it's still not a true NHL city to me...

Cincinnati obviously is an historic baseball town with the Reds -- the oldest active pro team with a winning track record overall (although they haven't won the WS since the 1970s Big Red Machine). In the 1960s a bitter coach Paul Brown, fired by Art Modell, established the Bengals with the Browns' colors (and look until they adopted the bengal-striped helmet a couple decades ago) in retaliation. Cincy has become a loyal NFL city, but it's still nowhere close to Browns Nation imho, even with the so-called "New Browns" of 1999 which finally, after nearly 2 decades of trash, may be on the upswing this season following an excellent draft... We'll see.
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Old 08-21-2017, 10:40 AM
 
Location: Cincinnati (Norwood)
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Cincinnati obviously is an historic baseball town with the Reds -- the oldest active pro team with a winning track record overall (although they haven't won the WS since the 1970s Big Red Machine).
1990 World Series: Cincinnati Reds over Oakland Athletics (4-0).
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Old 08-21-2017, 11:45 AM
 
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1990 World Series: Cincinnati Reds over Oakland Athletics (4-0).
Oops, you're right... forgot about that one... Sorry Cincy-ites.
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Old 08-21-2017, 11:49 AM
 
Location: Nashville TN, Cincinnati, OH
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I like Ohio St football the best, Ohio St football is life but is tough be a Buckeye fan in the SOUTH. We have some fans but 99 percent of people hate us here.
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Old 08-21-2017, 05:54 PM
 
Location: Cleveland, OH
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I like Ohio St football the best, Ohio St football is life but is tough be a Buckeye fan in the SOUTH. We have some fans but 99 percent of people hate us here.
That's because you're in deep SEC country, and even if their team is not in it; they'll still root for them because they love the SEC. I was finally glad when Ohio State beat Alabama three years ago in the College Football Players, so I wouldn't have to hear from ESPN on how dominant the SEC is, and the Big 10 was The Little Sisters of the Poor.
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Old 08-21-2017, 09:01 PM
 
Location: CA
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Browns and Indians in in CLE tonight! How often can you say that?
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Old 08-21-2017, 09:18 PM
 
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Browns and Indians in in CLE tonight! How often can you say that?
Much more often than you can say that they both won!!!
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